More than three months on, the mystery of what happened to Alcedo Mora, and the possible reasons behind his disappearance, remain open to question.

His son, Alcedo Mora, Jr. recently left a video message where he said that the investigation is in the same spot that two months ago and called on national authorities to break their silence. He even dared mention the possibility that his father was the victim of a forced disappearance.

According to his son, Mr Mora had evidence of possible corruption by local PDVSA employees involving gas smuggling from El Vigia’s distribution terminal. He shared his evidence with both Martinez and the Merida State Governor, Alexis Ramirez on February 24th. He had been on the case (along with others) for six months.

(For the record, Mr. Mora started working for the previous Governor of Merida, Marcos Diaz Orellana, back in 2008, but kept his job when Ramirez replaced him four years later).

To try understand this case, there’s this special report from news site Armando.Info that came out a month ago. Titled “Las pistoladas de Alcedo Mora”, journalist Juan Jose Faria present both a portrait of the man, and the motives that led to him going missing, including the revelation that he received death threats by armed men a week before his disappearance.

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